What Feral Animal Control Methods are Used in Australia?
Feral animals are a real problem in Australia. Since European settlement, a number of native Australian flora and fauna have had to compete with introduced plant and animal species, which have impacted the survival rates of native species, as well as our ecosystem. One of the main reasons for the increasing number of feral animal...
Australia’s Infestation of Wild Swine
When the first fleet came to Australia in 1788, they brought pigs with them. Initially kept in unrestrained and semi-feral conditions, escape was easy, so by the 1880s pigs had started to run wild in New South Wales. Today, the feral pigs occupying Australia by the millions are descendant from various breeds of domestic pigs....
Feral Animal Control: Wild Cats
Did you know that in Australia feral cats cover 99.8% of Australia with a density of one cat for every four square kilometres? While the overall number of wild cats in Australia is unknown, it’s estimated that there are as many as eight million prowling our land. To put this into perspective, one feral cat...
Feral Camels and Australia: What You Need to Know
Did you know that Australia has the world’s largest population of wild Arabian camels? This might come as a surprise to a lot of Australians, especially those living in urban areas, but in regions made up of desert-like terrains, such as the Great Victoria and Simpson deserts, there are an estimated 1.2 million wild camels...
